Synodic month length 29.47 days

Length of current 481 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 minutes shorter than next lunation 482 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 40 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 1 December 2038 Wednesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠10.8°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠10.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠28.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon after perigee

5 days after point of perigee on 25 November 2038 at 22:45 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 8 December 2038 at 13:35 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 382 519 km

Moon after descending node

3 days after its descending node on 28 November 2038 at 08:54 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 12 December 2038 at 16:05 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

2 days after previous South standstill on 29 November 2038 at 02:24 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.865°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.887° in the next northern standstill on 13 December 2038 at 13:26 in ♋ Cancer.